Qingxia's long eyelashes, like fans, could not conceal her unusually determined eyes.
"The Crown Prince instructed his subordinates to take good care of you and never mention anything about him in front of you."
Qingxia closed her eyes after speaking, "Miss, although I don't understand what the Crown Prince is thinking, I can feel that the Crown Prince truly loves you very much."
Only by seeing it with your own eyes and participating in it can you feel that intense, overwhelming yet deeply restrained love.
A cold wind blew, and Nan Lingqin's heart, which had been wounded by anger, suddenly expanded rapidly and then contracted tightly. Her thick eyelashes trembled slightly, and she looked at Qingxia with her starry eyes, her voice calm, "Can I trust you?"
"Zihe is Miss's person in life and Miss's ghost in death. In this life, I only wish for Miss's safety and well-being."
Zihe stepped forward and said, “To be honest, Miss, the Crown Prince knew the Emperor’s whereabouts in advance tonight and knew that he would come here to do something unsavory. So, he ordered his subordinates to break the formation in the northwest corner first, intending to use you to get through and then use you to deal with the Emperor. But I never expected that you, Miss, would always be such an anomaly.”
After Zihe finished speaking, she lowered her head.
Nan Lingqin slightly raised her eyes and looked into the distance. That was the place where she had left in anger and abandoned Xu Yiran. The faint light was the moonlight.
Xu Yiran, he was so good to her, afraid that she would be hurt, in pain, tired or weary. She hated Yuwen Yao, and he helped her hate him. She wanted to kill him, and she helped him kill him. Just now, when Yuwen Yao was determined to save the Northern Emperor, the person who should have supported her in killing him stopped her and firmly wanted to protect Yuwen Yao.
Yes or no……
Xu Yiran already knew something all along.
But there was something she didn't know. Her mind was a mess, as if something had suddenly struck her with a sharp pain, yet it felt like a broken thread, unable to connect properly.
"flutter--"
Just then, a dull sound of a knife piercing flesh suddenly rang out.
Nan Lingqin was stunned, then looked at Zihe who was slowly falling. "Zihe..." Her pupils contracted, and she quickly flew over to catch Zihe before she fell to the ground, shouting urgently, "Are you crazy? What are you doing?"
"Miss……"
Zihe held the knife stuck in her abdomen in one hand, and looked at Nan Lingqin with a smile, "I originally thought... I could, I could stay with you a little longer, but... I broke my promise in the end."
"No, you didn't break your promise..."
"No..."
Zihe shook her head, tears welling in her eyes. "Miss, I broke my promise. I... I swore an oath before the Crown Prince. If one day I were to tell you what just happened, that Crown Prince would suffer a terrible death, be condemned to endless misfortune, and be condemned to eternal damnation..."
Nan Lingqin frowned upon hearing this and could only subconsciously help Zihe soothe his wound.
"What nonsense are you talking about? I'll help you stop the bleeding."
"No……"
Zihe grabbed Nan Lingqin's hand, "Miss, I... I'm telling the truth. It was the Crown Prince who ordered me to send it. May he die a horrible death, may he be cursed in every life, and may he be condemned to eternal damnation..."
"That's enough! Stop talking. I'll take you to see a doctor."
"No……"
Zihe shook her head. Her clothes were already stained red. She was a martial artist. She knew how to stab herself to die completely, and how to say what she wanted to say before she died. She looked at Nan Lingqin and suddenly smiled bitterly, "I learned a lot and was very happy during the days I was with Miss. I thought that a life that was just going through the motions had a different meaning."
"Even so, why do you have to hurt yourself..."
"But...I...I secretly swore back then that if it was truly out of necessity, if I couldn't bear to see Miss sad and heartbroken, if I couldn't bear to see the Crown Prince bear all the consequences of this life alone, then as long as I die, all the retribution will be mine. May the cycle of karma bring me endless misfortune in every life, and may I be condemned to eternal hell—all of that will be mine. It will have nothing to do with the Crown Prince, nothing to do with Miss..."
Qingxia took a deep breath and finished speaking, looking at Nan Lingqin with a wide smile, "Miss, I only want you to be happy. That's why... I didn't tell you about the conflict between you and Princess Phoenix earlier... I... the Crown Prince... he really cares about you... from beginning to end, he hasn't thought about himself at all."
Zihe used all her strength to say the last word and then closed her eyes tightly.
How happy and surprised someone who hasn't seen her for a long time would be to know that she is still alive and by their side! But in less than an hour, she was gone, and all sounds and all traces vanished from the world in an instant.
With a deep, piercing pain in her heart, Nan Lingqin simply sat there holding Zihe for a very long time, until the night dew was deep and cold, when Xu Yiran had already come over.
"Xiao Qin..."
“Xu Yiran…”
Nan Lingqin slowly raised her head, her eyes filled with thorns and a deep, unyielding sorrow.
“Xu Yiran, another one has died. She was Zihe… Now, she’s dead too… Xuanyuan Du hasn’t been dead for long, and now, Zihe is dead too…”
Her eyes were unfocused, like a soulless shell, which pained Xu Yiran deeply. She suddenly stepped forward and leaned down, "Xiao Qin, don't be like this..."
"Tell me, why, why does everyone say he loves me, why..."
...
In an extremely quiet courtyard.
Yuwen Yao threw the Northern Emperor onto the bed without any courtesy, his expression cold and devoid of any of the emotions one would expect from a son.
"Yuwen Yao, I am your father!" The Northern Emperor was furious. He had just been stabbed by Nan Lingqin, and although the treatment was simple, he was in great pain. Yuwen Yao's current state was enough to make him lose his composure and his eyes flash with malice.
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